The Sun. — London, England, 1826-08-17 00:00:00

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' ; , .,',',.PI , . ~Y 1 : CONTRACT FOR LIGHTING. Royal Hospital for Seamerr at Greenwich. August 5, 1626. S UCH persons as may b e w illi ng t o C ontract f or Lighting the Interior of thie Institution, and such parts of the Exterior as, may he required with Oil, for One Year from the let of Oetob.er next, ma , ,- deliver iu their proposals to the Directors at this plae,e on Sattirtt' a} ;, the 26th instant, at 11 o'clock in the fore noon, attar that hor s no proposals will be received. In the mean time tlje Fornik , tf Proposals, and particulars as to quality, period of del,ivery, will be obtained at the Steward's Office here. r'arties dsviirowts of contracting must personally attend ou the dp,y and hour aforesaid, and no tenders will be received from any `who are not dealers in the articles for which they offer. Pror,osals are required to ,be agreeable to the forms above nietttif 'tied, and to runfain the names and reeidence of two respon sible Sureties; and it is also requested, that the word " Tender" be v vritten on the address of each proposal, otherwise no regard wird be paid to them. -- - BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL MALL. A IS MAJESTY, with th a t lib era li ty and conde scending kindness with which he has always favoured the objects of the BRITISH INSTITUTION, having placed at the disposal of the Directors, for the purpose of imniediate Exhibi- Atm, his, PRIVATE COLLECTION of PICTURES, from CARLTON HOUSE PALACE, the 'alley i s open d a i ly, from T en i n th e M orn i ng until Six in tl - „ e Evening, Admission, I s. — Ce.elogte, Is. , WILIjaAM BARNARD, K , .eeper. CLARK'S .GI2NEItAL OUTFITTING • wAn.EnousP.', for the EAST and WEST INDIES and SOUTH AMEPACA, EXETER 'CHANGE, STRAND. Officers, Cadeti, and 't • t India, anti Gentle men proceeding to Sor.ith America, or any other part of the Globe, will find in tklis Establishment the whole of their Mili tary AppointnrAt*, Swords, Chaco*, Sashes, Belts, Pistols, &c. togethei with, i t huge-anti well manufactured stock of Sea Cots, Couches, +ands liedding ; Cabin IVash.hand Tables,. Chairs, and Lamps t. Seat Chests, Mule and Bullock Trunks, and every • other desexiptiOn of Travelling Equipage. ?AN ASSORTMENT OP CANTEENS, ready fitted with ti ie necessary requisites for India, and other tropical climates likewise a great variety of Silver and Plated Article's, Knives and: 'Forks, suitable for families going abroad ; Military 'and litodostatiee Books, Maps, &c. aI...FASHIONA BLE STOCK of Carriae, t urriele, T a n. dem, Melon, Stanhope and Chaise HAR NESS, with every description of.Saddleiy, &.c. &c. for home use, East and Wcst Indies 4 and South America, which merit inspection from their excellent quality, • first style of workmanship, and moderate All the Articles in thisEitablisliment are warranted, and the eXeelle'At plan of fifty years standing is still strictly adhered. to, of l' e tkitig but one Ready Money Price, from which no abate. urea .will be made. • CA BINET-MA k ER.S' SOCIETY.— CHEANCABINET and UPHOLSTERY, at trio LON ' - DON REPOSITORY for the CABINET-MAKERS' SO CIETY, being the only real one now existing in London, No. 71, corner of LEADENHALL-STREET, . opposite Aldgate Pump, , and which has been established upwards of Six years. For Ready Money, and no Abatement. The Trustees and Committee respectfully infirm the Nobility and Gentry, that they still conduct the above Establishment for the Benefit of industrious and ingenious Mechanics (who have large families), by offering their Manufactured Articles in tbe Cabinet Line of the hest workmanship, and cheaper than by any House in London, no other profit being required than to satisfy the warehouse rent and incidental expences; being satisfied with conetant• employment to enable them to support their families, the number of whom appear by the Books of the last Quarterly Meeting to be 148. From the great patronage the Committee have reoeived, they are in hopes of increasing that number. The follovrink ii a Specimen of the "Lb* Prices asked; all Goode Warranted : • X. s. d. Five feet M*hogany Bedstead, four-post 4 10 0 , Tent ditto 6 dered Mattress to fit - 1 1 0 0 Mahogany Dr awers w i t h solid ends - 35 0 - 'Eightliahogany Chain( - 610 0 Siabogany, Pembroke Tabl e 2 Feather B e d f ree f rom dust and smell, 0 from . .£2 12 0 ,to 8 8 0 Drawing -tow n Sofa, from .£5 50to 7 7 0 Sofa' Bedstead - 38 0 ,' , Mahogany:llorse-Ilair Sofa - 6 10 0 npwsrds A quantity of Paper Hangings for Bed, Dining, and Drewing mmot, at nearly Half-price. The Trade will fin& it worth their attention. • frivHouses Furni s h e d at a few days' notice, and Ap ar t men t s i n a rew ilware..—Goods packed free of expense except the matting. • COMMITTEE. • T. Corder J. Wilson J. Carter I I • T. Hasler J. Unett W. Waghorn THURNELL Agent. J. HASLER, Secretary. • - ---- SaruGGLINO EXTRAORDINARY.--Oft Tuesday aboutittion, a man stripped himself upon the beach , opposite the hathing-rooms, at Dover, and went into the wat.er to hael4, in and a ft er enjoy , :oight of several people who were near the place ; a be gave ing himself for some time, plunging about in the Water? ~.ewiii an alarm, aod struggled as if he was conaewua that Ma , lif e in danger. The sentinels of the C,oast Blockade procure(' the bostletationed a t t h e post, and put off to his assistance; but whirs they were thus engaged, a number of snen crowded towards the shore, and with a rope drew out a few tubs of spirits, and taking One each upon their shoulders, walked away with their loads, and got clear off by the Marine Parade, when the promenade was lite' rally thronged. The drowning man immediately recovered his strength, his object being merely to divert the sentinels from their post, until his comrades had worked , the goods which were sunk. Ws hsve heard that the water has since been dragged, and forty tubs linnet in' the 'genie place..lCentisit Gazette. The following curious details respecting a robbery committed at Volmerange were elicited at the Court of Assizes at ' Metz, on the 4th inst. In the month of September, 1824, Julie • Heilbrotin, the widoW of a half -pay officer, living at Vol:tier:lnge, came to olTer, fur a sure of money, to the widow Anne Soutag; a WOMAII of a very weak mind, ta discover to her a treasure hidden in a barn by her late husband ; the conditions were, that a certain sum Rhombi .he given every day for masses fior the repose of the soul of Sontag's husband, still in purgatory ; that during the nine days that the search should lam, a piece of six francs should be placed in the water-chatet, and that all the windows, doors, drawers, by should be left open. The search began, but wu put a sto to by an event which opened the eyes . of the widow. Ileilbro P uri had tam ear , to have two feithful accomplice s ; in the eight .of the 16th of September the declared to her dupe that the oil of the lamp . would riot suffice, and they both went tout to it some • from a , neighbouring shop. Having purchased the nil, the en chantress took 'good rare not to allow the widow Sonta g t o re .' turn, but led her towards a bridg e at the extremity of the villa); _where n ludicrous scene . took piece: —..... " Do you set'," said e he, " those flames dancing on the surfer* of - the water?"' " N o , where are they ?" " There, there, all blue ;- and appear and disappear." " But I,:see nothing et all," exclaimed the dupe, " nothin g tit all sbscpt!iy." ' " Ah, tuy dear, it is th e sou l of your Poor dear husband in purgatory, con*, quick, the masses !" But Anne Soutag, however uneasy about the soul of her husband, be t gar to have .certain qualms for the repose of , her own goods, and . eivreseed a Wi s h 'to return home. On 'arriving, she saw a light I n th e barn p the neighbours had b e h eld all her goods reinoved fro Mon ill, open floors and wi n d ows , not suspecting what was goin g . • no alarm was given; the woman Heilbronn and her aides de -camp were arrested, and condemned, the fermer to ten years; The l e t ter to seven years' imprisonment. Anne Soutag, an her urination,, tleposed i that feeling- doubtful attont the tucceu of poied to the curate of the vlag wh o nfterA u nder Loi tier, that he eoulti not ensure the recovery of th e r e,easure; but I that t he Inaesee could not fail to do good to the soul of her hu e . This explsnation set the it were ' dill in ' purgatory. ` vh ele court in a to the great discomfiture of the credulous widow. r oar , , . . RETURN POST-CHAISES, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Mft. EDITOR--I shall feel obliged if you, or any of the correspondents of your loyal and widely-circu lating journal, will inform me, whether or not a law has lately come into 'operation which forbids a return post-chaise carrying passengers, under a severe penalty? I have been told, but am unwilling to believe, such is the case, since it would ill accord with the liberal and enlightened Conduct so uniformly .displayed by, his Majesty's Government. If such, however, be : the law, do' p ra y i n f orm me on what Act of Parliament this excrescence, this fungtis of legislation, has been en grafted ? What has the country suffered by the prac tice ? and what is ex p ecte d to be ga i ned by depriving the inferior, but not therefore less deserving, orders of his Majesty's subjects, of an accommodation they have hitherto enjoyed!' For such I believe are almost the only persons who benefit by it.—Mark its operation. A few days since, a' man in humble circumstances in the country, had a distance of nearly thirty miles to travel on business that was to him important, and t o whom it was equa ll y i mportant he should return as speedily its possible to his family and his usual avoca tions. No stage-:coach could afford the deSired ac commodation on the day he was able to set out; a return chaise, however, was going nearly twelve .miles on the road, to a point from whence he would have been en abled to get on with facility, but the driver declined to take hum, in consequence of this alleged enactment, and the carriage returned empty and useless, leaving the humble traveller to wait or walk, his circumstances not allowing him to incur the expellee 'of u a is chaise." I r e p ea t my i nqu i ry, M r. Editor, what is to be gained, and who is to be benefitted by this enact ment, if such exists? Was 'it intended for the benefit of stage coachmen ? Surely, the public are already suf ficiently at the mercy. of. these worthies, who, , of all classes of his Majesty's_ subjects, may, perhaps, '.be most safely l e ft t o t a k e care o f themselves. VVas it intended' to ben e fit th e Revenue ?—impossible,—the liberal and enlarged views of his Majesty's Ministers would never have allowed them to countenance any such pitiful regulation as a matter of finance, had the subject : been fairly before them--::it looks like an in terpolation of some clerk of the fourth class. Revenue is necessary for the p ur p oses o f th e , S ta t e, and no right mind e d Englishman will object to taxes fairly le vie d, an d hO nestly applied, but a shilling exacted by petty fiscal regulations will always be more unwil lingly paid than a pound levied by any direct and open system ; and I verily believe a great majority of the' public would readily acquiesce in an equitable property tax, if thereby relieved from minor, but vexatious ob jects of taxation ; at all ' even t s suc h i s t h e feeling a yoUr obedient Servant and constant reader; TEN TO: APPLE STEALING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR—Observing in some of the London papers much comment and considerable censure on the con duct of the Magistrates of Dorsetshire, and the ReV. George Chemberlaine, Rector of .Wyke Regis, in cm,- sequence of the committal of some overgrown boys to the tread-mill, for repeatedly robbing g ar d ens i n thi s and the neighbourhig garish of Wyke, and conclud ing, fioni the manner in which 'the' subject has been treated, that the author must be ignorant Of the pecu liar and local circumstances of the case,l think it due to the public, from a belief' that they have been misled, as well as to the character of the Magistrates of Dor set, to give them, through the medium of your Paper, better information respecting the facts of the case; whereby I shall afford you the.opportunity (by the in sertion of this statement) of doing justice to th e con duct of the Magistrate s an d the Reverend Rector. We must all allow that plunderin g gardens of ap ples and gooseberries by mere children has 'alway s been, and I trust al ways w ill be, look e d upon as a ve nial offence ; but when I tell you that h ere i t i s prac tised by•striplin gs , an d ' (Ss' shoe marks have often shown) by full-grown men, not for the purpose of sa tisfying a juvenile appetite, but for gain, you Will, perhaps, view the affair in a different light, and eve = cially as the practice was becoming more_ frequent, and the plunder more extensive—friiit of all kinds, and onions and, potatoes. There exists a marked difference -be t Ween orchard and garden robbing—in the former,' a bushel of apples now and then taken away is neither missed nor cared for - ; but an inclosed 'garden Ought to be nearly as sacred as a .h ouse. O nly consider, Mn Edi= tor, what, chagrin and vexation the owne r o f a favourite garden must feel when he rises in the morning, or're turns after a short absence, to find the pride of his heart, a neat and tastefully arranged garden, plundered and laid waste in an apparently wanton manner. I say laid waste--for these gentry often break the limbs of valuable trees, trample upon' choice flowers, and materially injure growing crops o f vegetables. Per. baps s eri tli l e l se remarks may not. have due weight with in habitants of populous cities, with whom rural beauty therefore o b t e i g eas to t s s t o ate ni o t P a th t e t m he ) d o e ld - P is not familiar. d in question offenders,re_ators g e arden robbing, but in pilfer.: ing, and formed a-little gang of general depredators. Reprimand and leniency had produced no -effect, and. therefbre a serious punishment appeared necessary to. inake an impression on these (certainly some of diem) young 'incorrigibles. The Correspondent of some of the papers overlooked the ciictnstance, that the Ma gistrates cautiously avoided these youths with the ordinary workers of the tread. Mill. Desiring, Mr. Editor, to intrude no more thaP appears necessary on the columns of :your valuable Journal, ' I shall con clude with I l a loe, thatshown there existed no p grounds f or the vituperation which has been so lavishly bestowed on tl D t and the Rev. le aistrates o orse Rector of Wyke M. Re g is.g N. 13 . 1 trust that your brother journalists, who have published the " will have the candour ''to: b_. publish statement , . pu ha this also - - for Ma gistracy should not be improperly Mr it it E ' prise THA N T n lIF ...,ISEA SE.— One friend calling upon Kfter 4116 ther, a farmer in the North, 'to inquire. s liealtll, received .the follow big rep l y t " C have Hash a pain i n my head, which is le fitter, f b or ave.been almost wo r cues f or . rtes to deals with THE ARMY. CHANGE OF QUARTERS OF THE GUARDS. The following change of quarters of the Guards is ordeted•to take place on the 23th inst. viz. The let Battalion of the Grenadier Guards, from Portman street barracks to Knightsbridge barracks. The 3d battalion of the Greutidier Guards froin the Tower to Westminster quarters. The lat battalion of the Coldstream Gum (1,, from Knightbridge barracks to the Tower. ster T g ht ua fi r d t.ers battal on o to p i ortn f ia t i l_ st e sd ree t t .eg ba ii r n r e a n c t k o s. f Guards, from Westinin- The depot of the 2,1 luttaliou otthe 60th Rifle Corps marelml, on the 14th inst. from Weymouth for Portsmouth. Detachments of recruits arrived in town yesterday morning, from Bristol, on 'route to join their reopeCtive corps and depots. WEST INDIA SLAVERY. . • . I have seen eaves in every variety of condition which the West . earl• Pr' cut. I have seen them in Barhadoes, and other Caribbean Isles subject to English command and discipline. I hare seen them in Martinique and other places subject to French rule. I have seen theft in St. Thomas's; and other neighbour ing isles, obedient to the Danish yoke. Further, I hare seen many negroes in Colombia who had been 'laves, and are now free. You know that I have seen and known a good deal of 'Wilber force and Buxton, Macintosh and • Brougham, Stephen and Alacauley, and the other advocates of emancipation at' home. Let me then try to give you a fair account of the question. In referring to the abstract principle of right there cannot pos. 'sibly be any difference of opinion. No man can possess a' right to enslave his fellow-man. Nu man can be a slave without being degraded, and losing, as Homer truly said, half his manhood. When a slave sighs for freedom, he rouses every sympathy of the human heart to aid hint. But the slaves in the %Vest Indies have not the slightest Sense of having been free, and of having, by the fortune of war, or by fraud, been deprived •of their freedom. As in all savage tribes, the animal propensities predominate; they feel whateVer gives , them pain by corporeal infliction or privation, but reflection, thought, anxious anticipation, or indignant recollection, they are absolute strangers to. That they are capable of being elevated in the scale of reason and of moral consciousness, no wise or good man will dispute for a moment ; but whether there are not ignorant and degraded huittan beings whose education and improvement ought sooner to be attended to by benevolent Englishmen may be made a question. Undoubtedly, however, it would be charitable and benevolent to educate and improve the slaves in the West Indies. Let all means be speedily and' zealously employed for this excellent purport*. The owners answer :—" Let 'well alone. The slaves are con tented and happy." Grant it ; they think themselves well, be cause they know no better ; they are 'contented becauee they are stupidly ignorant. Those who believe theni to has', immortal souls feel anxious to inspire, them with a consciouiness of their own worth and high destiny, and to train them to hehiti of re flection and devotioti. In this argument the planters must fail they have uo solid ground to stand On, no'sound arguments to ad vance. Education, education, education—let education be freely given to the slaves, and let them be initiated and instructed in all the mysteries and consolations of the Christian religlion• But the great and really difficult question is that of emancipation. Here are thousands and tens of thousands of slaves, subject to a few whites. Leaving out of view how the owners and slaves came to be relatively , as placed, and taking it for granted that Parliament will give ample compensation to all sufferers from legislative inter- 1 ference, let us calmly inquire what course ought in prudence, wis dom, and humanity, to be adopted. The slavea in the W es t I n di es work incomparably less than' any laboure r s in England. It it quite sickening to see the sleepy style in which they move their limbs and ply their work. Their ex pences for food, house, clothing, medical attendaruw, &c. are certainly greater than the orrlittazy wages of labour in England. But their owners, besides these expends, paid originally from lOU to 250/. a head for then,. If, upon being emancipated, they would work like European labourers ; nay, if they would work in the lazy mode in which they now work, their owners might be per ked). content and Retained.. Hut two very material considerations ought never to be lost sight of in discussing this question. 1. A tropical climateiudisposesfor bodily labour, and without compulsion, direct or indirect, derived from a master's authority or one's own interest, there Will be no industry, no perseverance, no work. But the very °llea is to take way the toaster's direct compulsion, and to leave the emancipated negro to the indirect influence of his own interest. On this then he depends for via. thous industry; on this the landowners depend for the due cult vation of their estates. 2. A tropical dilute reduces human wants to such narrow bounds, that industry has no stimulus and sloth is scarcely punished. The wise precaution of Jove, to make food the fruit of much labour, that man might not become the victim of sloth, extended not to the tropics, for here houses and clothes can be dis pensed with. This then is au immense reduction of the motives to labour. But food is abundant and cheap. Give them phintains, caroutas, and the like, and they havenothiug to seek. One day's labour will procure provisions of this sort for a week. It is so, in fact, in Colombia. You *ill not get Peones to Work more than half a week. 'On pretence of holidays, illness, or without pretence at all, they are idle the rest of the week, and their wages not only supply them food, but enable them to be abominably drunk with the Creole rum of the country. Now, Sir, casting aside the violent passions of emancipators and slave-owners, I submit to you that there is here a very grave dif f iculty. It cannot he the object of our good men at home to Make the Condition' and prospects of the Africans worse and darker than they are. I know it is not. That they should he jealous of arguments urged by slave-owners, by the same class of persons who advocated the slave-trade in it. horridest forms, and shrieked and howled as for life when the abolition was the ques tion of the day, is nut only reasonable but unavoidable. The senseless outcry against such men as Wilberforee, Macintosh, Brougham, and Stephen, can only prove the weakness of the cause, and the violence of the passions on that side of the ques tion. But the men I have named need only to he apprised of the consequences of precipitate emancipation, , to: be guarded against any rash and ill-considered measures on the subject. In the treatment of slaves there is certainly great mildness and fOrbearance. Far this, the slaves are undoubtedly indebted to their English advocates. The punishment of death is rare, be cause the life of the convict is valuable to hiss owner. Hence you see many labourers in perpetual chains. In the French colonies there is far less severity than in the English, that happy -tempered people bestowing the solace 'of their politeness even' on their ' slaves. In St. Th omas ' s I saw • several youn g men and several young women chained together in separate groups, and levelling the public road. It was a pitiful aught to see the poor young Women, with an iron-chain round their unformed waists, loading baskets with atones, and filling up a hole in the road: Their surly euperintendent, every now and then reminded them he had a whip. I asked their offence. "Oh I their owner is gone - fel:4n Fannie ; he was afraid they would run away in his ahaeuet, and sent them to the Government-prison. This is the only work we have for them to do." But this sear Danish. lo this ameliorated state of slavoryin a climate which power fully indisposes for labour, and in .places where extremely little khOur is necessary for the preservation of life, the propneition,t o imancipete is involsed in great difficulty. By bestowing educa tion you must enlarge the demands of the negroes for. food, clothes, and holieehold accommodation, and ;thug add to the motives for industry and sobriety. But above all, by' conVerti n Christia n it y , and instructing them in the doctrines, precepts, and S theta to pmspect e (if our religion , you j ay t h e b est foundation, and esta blish the strongest 'security' for their obedience, virtue, and happi- DM. It is melancholy, and to say the truth, not creditable to the owners, that there should be such multitudee of slaves under standing and Speaking English, who have never been taught' the truths of the Gospel, or baptised in the'name of Christ. Sup. pose the period arrived when- slaves generally read the Bible, and attend religious worship. They would then be sensible Of the b ene fit s and : hazards of ernancipetion. Therwould wish -for it, beg for it, and gratef u ll y receive It. A boon is no ;blessing to him' who is insensibl e of its nature and value. Excite their thirst before you force them to drink. By these means the safest precautions will at least betaken to render emancipation not eraraarinlese, but really benefichit both to the masters and to the slaves. If, indeed, it should still be found that neither education nor religion will stimulate to reason able exertions in a tropical climate, which no man acquainted with the subject will positively assert or deny, then the question will arise —abandon the West Indies altogether, or continue to culti vate them by slaves. In the discussion of this question no unim portant consideration will be the probable consequences to the slaves themselves, of being abandoned to their own discretion and management. Suppose the sacrifice made brEngland of all her Weat Indian Colonies; suppose the slaves allsmancipated. They will work only when it is necessary for - hare Sustenance. ; But the soil yields without any labour enough to satisfy their wants. In these circumstances what could be looked for, but their ultimate extermination by wild wars, as formerly in Africa, by famine, or by pestilence? And 'the crimes .and the. horrors of intermediate events, what heart can conceive unappalled ? "But I run away with prospective and very doubtful reasoning. What it at pre ient to be attended to, is to raise the moral condition of the slaves by an abundant supply of xealotla indefatigable schoolmasters, and, ministers of religion. This, at least, will be conferring unequi vocal good, and perhaps qualifying and- fining- fir the frill rues sion of " the rights of man." - NEWSPAPERS -BANKS. (rams A CORIMPONDIENT.) There :is not a daily newspaper published in all Great Britain, out of London—nor in Ireland out of Dublin, but one—in Cork. Thus, it would seem, that LindOn, Dublin, and Cork, are the only cities in the empire that possess any loCal daily source of political or mercantile intelligence. But that Cork.should take the lead of Edinburgh, with its ten, periodicals, and its fifteen. banking houses, is not a little singular. The following statement will show in what ratio .newspaper intelligence is afloat in the different principal Cities in the empire London Daily Morning Daily Evening 6 Total.. Dublin Daily Cork ditto Total number of papers p and towns iblished, in the principal cities London ..... 50 20 Edinburgh Liverpool 6 Afaneherter ...... 6 Cork Brlfitst Bristol Leeds York Coderbury Chelmsford 1 Exeter . . o Galway s 3 Glasgow Bath After London, there are only eleven towns in Englank that publish more than one or two papers. After Dublin, there ary only three in Ireland—namely, Cork, Belfast, and Galway,. that publish ,more than one or two; and, setting aside Edinbiughand:Glasgow, there is not a single town in Scotland that does. England and Wales, 74 Cities and towns, publish 168 paper. . Ireland 2r, Scotland In 1824, the th ree I s l an d s ' h ad employed SS banking houses. There are ten newspapers pu in Edin burgh, while it has employment for fifteen ing-houses. Edinburgh Newspapers 10 Banking-houses ..... I 5 Glasgow Dublin 2O .••. lO 6 How much more the Scotch are employed in accumu lating and storing up m oney , t h an read i ng the public jour nals ? This, it must be allowed, is not saying much for the industry of the Irish. Liverpool has but six banks, and Manchester the like number. Quere—Doee Edin burgh or Olaigo* possess a more extensive trade- than Liverpool ? Fashionable watering places also abound with banks.--- Bristol claims ten, Bath has five, and Brighton' , as many more: the city of Oxford also has five, one of which is claimed solely .by the University, to deposit its learned treasures. The Dublin University, allowed to be the wealthiest' in Europe, has no, such establishment under, its Wing. * Nenz......1 n the year 1824, thirty-6es Mail and stage coaches started almost daily from London to Brighton, being about the same number that were employed fir the entire service of Ire land. —.Freeman's Journal. [The above account is full of errors. Cork tines not publish a " Daily Paper," hut tyro papers on alternate days ; and Glasgow, Edinburgh, and other places, publish daily papers in this Irish Way. -:The Correspondent of the Freeman's Journal ought to have collected more correct inforMatiori before he published his ignorance to the world. Edinburgh has 1,2 papers • Glasgow, six ; Nottingham, four; Birmingham, three; .Stafford, three, &e.—but we presiime the " Correspondent" founded his calcula tions upon an old Almeria* and thought that by the mere dint of genius, he could 'strike out anniethmg new to enlighten his readers.),—En. POETRY. EPITAPH ON A TUFT -HUNTER. Lament, lament, Sir Isaae Heard, Put mourning round thy page, l)ebrett, For here lies one who ne'er prefered . A Viscount to a Marquis yet. Beside him' place the Cod of Wit, Before him Beauty's rosiest girls, Apollo for a star he'd quit, And Love's own sister for an Earl's. Did niggard fate no peers afford, He took, of courite, to peers' relations; And, rather than not sport a lord, Put up with ev'n the last creations. Ev'n Irish names, could he hut tag 'em With " Lord" and "Duke," were sweet to call ; And, at a pinch, Lord Ballyraggum Was better than no Lord at all Heavtn grant him now some noble nook, For, rest his soul, he'd rather be Genteelly d-d beside a Duke, Than sav'd in vulgar company. 1 PUBLIC DISTRESS.--STATE OF THE CITY OF CORK. The condition to which the Poor of this City are re d uced is at ~ . length about t o b e taken into consmerattoo. At ameeting of what is called the Relief Corninittee, held on Friday, a - Requisition to the Mayor was originated, to call a Meeting " to take into con sideration the extremely 'distressed state of the poor inhabitants, being ettarhed to the retti and to adoptmeasures for their prompt relief." ,Ifia Worship was Chairman of the • Committee at the time,' and ,exp ress h t t hi, willingness end anxiety to- convene tilt - meeting, ' whibli he'did ne a t:t h re e : the measure should have been gone through in • a few minutes:.. and from this circumstance, and the admission upon all *idea that tht . im iti m ioan ed in.,g ie_t T e n l iih i e t i l li.) p: in n erteo s in fou, ao s sn ig d dirtress was great , anti tl . e necessity of immediate relief urgent and pre , .. . . , so tong delayed. :--Dabliit' Atli. iting R eg i at, An acedl i td , - win ich s v erycircumstantial in its ti e _ tails, has been transmitted to ere from a south-lvtatern County, regarding a horrible connection stated' to exi st b etween a • man (whose mama is mentioned to us) and hit own daughter !--both balongjog to the Methodist body. It appears' that..this revoltin intercourse has had its conse quences , and that s till t h e g cr i minal parties continue their guilty .enhabitation—and, like the Devi, rilote scriptisre to their purpose ! When we embody this 'tate meat, which we have every reas o n to is P. etirrect One, we would not wish it to be understood that ore mean to impugn the morality of the Class to which these wretched person s belong. _ we will, however, adduce it, and the.argumenta ueed to mac tion'it,. it - another additional viroof of the lamentable and irtil quitouseicesies, to which•modern fanaticism too frequently leads itt rotaries..--,Duhlin' Morning Regigter. THE are kiirati in,the SIN up trabb 'hem press; so that the public may see whatever haslaiken place hiring the morning In the COURTS OP LAW AND POLlci .OPMCES; together with a correct account of the prices of the various articles in TIER LONDON AND COUNTRY MARKETS, Including Meat, Vegetables, Fruits Bread, Corn, Hay, Coals, & e . The SUN i s the only Newspaper in London which gives the price of and for Tux ruNns, AT TUREI4 O'CLOCK ; , Country circulation, the CLOSING PRICES at roes. e'ci..oct, 'the SUN, of Wednesday and Saturday, contains the London Gavottes, List of Bankrupts, Promotions, &c. with the London. Price Current. HOUR OP PUBLICATION--QuAnTite, rAto May be had at 'Change, at itate..essr Times, and by: coach the same evening, within 50 m il es of London. i sigigg. Orders for this Paper received by all Newsmen, Clerks of the Rtiaas, and Postinasters,.in the United Kingdom. Advertisements promptly attended to, and displayed to advantage. KNIGHTHOOD: The profession of a Champion—The warlike sovereigns of Europe in the 12th century, derived more glory from this personal distinction, than from the lustre of their diadem. But oupei atition mingled in every public and private action of life : in the holy ware, it sanctified the profession of arms; and the order of chivalry was assimilated in its rights and privileges to the sacred orders of priesthood. The bath and white garment of the novice, were an indecent copy of the regeneration of baptism ; his sword which he offered on the altar, was blessed by the ministers of re ligion; his solemn reception . was preceded by fasts and vigils, and 'he was created a Knight in the name of God, of St. George, and of St. Michael the Archangel. Ile swore to accomplish .the duties of his profission ; and e d uca ti on , examp l e , an d t h e public opinion, were the inviolable guardians of his Oath.—Gibbon's Roman Empire, rot. 7.—The first of them orders was that of Si. John Lof Jerusalem, who tleriVed their name' and partietilarlY that of Rospitallers,- from en hospital in that city for relieving indigences. pilgrims. The Knights of Malta origininy' inhabited the island of Rhodes, from whence they were driven by the Ottoman arms in the year 1522. The Emperor Charles V., by way of reparation for having suffered Solymen to carry on his operations against . Rhodes without diaturbante iererttel to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, the. small island of Malta, in which they fixed their residence. This order, partly ecclesiastical, partly military, is allowed by all historians to have done great service to Christendom by the gallant resist ance they made to the , rapid progress of the' infidel*, . Henry VIII., who could endure us society , that professed obedience to the Pope, was obliged to have recourse to Parliament for' the dis solution of this order. Another artier, Which was entirely of a military nature, was that of the Knight Templars, so Called trom it palace adjoining to the Temple of Jerusalem, which , was appro- Priated to their use for a certain time, by Baldwin 11. The order of Templar* continued increasing for upwards of two hun dred years, and was far spread in Christendom, and particularly in England. But at length ovine of them at Jerusalem fall ing away (as some authors report), to the Saracens from Christianity, or rather became they greW too potent and rich, the whole order was suppressed by Clenient V. Anne 1307, by the Council of Vienna 1312, and their substance given partly to the knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and partly to other religious institutions. They flourished in England from the time of Henry 11. till they were suppressed in England and Ire land in the time of Henry VIII. Philip the Fair, King Of France, was the most dangerous, because he was the most powerful of their enemies. That Prince commanded all the Templar* in his dominions to be seized in one day, October 5, 1307, and throat n into prison. The third order of Teutonic knights, of St. Mary of Jerusalem, though a military institution, was employed in the relief of the poor. The Teutonic knights, after their, retreat from Palestine, made themselves masters of Prussia and Poland, where they obtained a professed subjection to the gospel by fire and sword -, but-in process of time, their vietorions arms received se veral checks, and when the light of the Refortnation arose upon Germany, they were deprived oldie richest provinces which they possessed in that country; though they still retain there a certain portion of their ancient territories.—See Robertson, Hums, and Henry. Also for the prosecution of the Knights `l'sinipliirs, see Henry's Great Britain. RULES for ASCERTAINING a HORSE'S AGE. Yearlings and two-year-olds are alike in mouth, and must be judged by general appearance. At three years old thehorse has four horse teeth, two above,and two below, in front of the mouth, which supply the place of the sucking teeth. At four he has eight horse teeth, four above and four below, having the corner teeth only sucking teeth. At five years old these are gone, and the tusk is imp on each side of the mouth. A dark ma . or hollow, i s ge nerally observable in *ll t h e teeth in the bottom jaw at - I‘mat, ve years old ; and the welts are concave M. their inner surface.. At six, the two middle teeth have quite lost this mark, and the tusk is higher up, and longer, and not so concave. At seven, the next two , teeth' have lest it, and the corner teeth only have the mark left its therm At eight it has grown out of these, and no mark left at all. Thq . tusks als o b ecome longer, and instead of being concave in their inner surface, bee:omit convex; ,the horse is thin termed aged. Thera is a great deal of difference in the mouths of horses ; some •have lost the mark in all, except the corner teeth, even as early as five years 'old; others have the front teeth in the top jaw, projecti ng over t h e bottom teeth, at the same age, arid I haVe seen hories at seven years old, with the corner teeth appearing like those of a five-year-old. You may form some idea of the age from the a p peerance, of the mouth in general, when the marks are no longer visible.— If the corner teeth do not appear long, and running for ward, as it were to the front of the mouth ;if they retain their square shape, and shut well together ; the tusks are not blunt, and have the least concavity in their inner sur face, you may conclude that the horse is not very , old, particularly if hi s head he not grey, and not very hollow above the eyes; though this latter shape someti mes ex ist s in young horses. A concave tusk is th e most certa i n cri terion of youth; and as mares have no tusk at all, they must be judged w i t h re f erence to what I have Said isbout the Corner teeth. It is here necessary to" Mention, that the difficulty of acquiring an accurate knowledge of the age of horses by their teeth, is very much increased by the tricks that are practised. It is generally allowed that no horses are fit to work till at least five years old; and it is a com cstom with gr ea t b ree d ers in the North of Englan d and with many dealers, to pull out the sucking teeth when the animal is rising four years old ; the mouth ix forced by these means, for the horse-teeth succeeding soon after the ope ration, the animal appears to be a five-year-old. To such dec e p t i on , regard must be paid to the fink. detectEry horse, upon attaining the full age of five, ha' the tusk it:completely up on each side of the mouth; but in forced h v at r t e r o ed - u Y rn g fl e e : 11;°. irregularityti h n k l e 1 g gums. u g m t r h s o . s wi t :T r h hi e o h t h t r e 4 e r t s e hfr k tero f t i ot r tn i I:sof:ton:1k teeth , n u . l e y n j t F l t y l 0 8 a t m e s exists n ew i d n a t e k e mi n i o l a f t to s a i h 'ta s i K ni y e . willti nh aloneeir operation ; appearance en abeanyod l the to aa. accordin gbeti ob t . h isit e irievr ti ien m ga 7 r4y o o f t.sar ' p lti e si rf ,fime nF ull i th i a ig es been practised. ALARM OF EARTIIQIIA—K-F.7—="--s.—" Upo ' n * t' ll ' I ' ' 61.14 .zsymptoms of an eerthquake Chile and La Platanets, beet thei r ) , their knees, inisericordia " (nrie s r t e l y I t . h i e n. .nativ ( ea ssY r s 111 r. liti'etrieirinboitlifil*Tfarliil'6"4P°iint mortified at th . eir pus'illenimity lviitomn u jede s nr i ewl o ys, iit ),f o ciil,,u,e.rnit.r;iry:eimr,elvadp:i.ltn . inallina7eiroat . i for never stirr ing out of the ho ' ute 00 i_th4,..,''‘l/431,1,,r„reit.ne,:14 ;I'*".Y smart shocks; but having been a wi i tase l ss " w, """ ..- -7 - - the t reat earthquake of 1822, 1 enu f te s that my courage fai ledotne, . 0 1 I was afterwards no We forwai . d than °there in ti)iiig out of d . irs on the slightest annuneisition of an earthquake. Col't'i" Hall's observation is cor.rect; when he says, that the rutteeptibility . o n res° r f ev Pe th i e d r e e rs: i r t i ell pou ti l ii: i th b t t oi h e ee ro c il a ::: Pt : T e t rt : r . t en 7he . l: A t f b ite t y :::;: w i h t h :::;: g p k ic r t e i. e i ti a l tit ' , " : 44 r ti ne ; j d n 7 , 4 :' rs i b t ir t nnof itt il li t y li th tte l i l t e e b te in i o ll t p t )i ei rl a t ,:ti t 2i i : o it : t i e t t : t drat WI! *Wit ' not fall over and clearing way amity and tables!, them in running . into the open air in, the tlerk . Even hi the sn at r i .4 „ e t n ic t s , °t a i r : re i n t iu l: Th r l al e t ' fi t e li r n v e hg e t: f i v o r r et i ng iw ie lr e h uin ti e e , o ; ;: l l ,l" : Y l r i t u e : n r di t t a t 'll ilb l tic is i t i 4 n f bi g e re il i P o r g :t ns . :l 4 Pr a itee wa tini t, l e. or b e fW.it tilt shock itself hes-followed the noise. A person who' has bacons alive to the letting cell aOutely distinguish a slight s hb e k; „b o n eeetber :fte ed, arrived, and a stranger to Vtose n s a tion, n o antic* nO.motiost whatever. "—Edinburgh. Evotiosf Cottrtikii